I noticed yesterday that my left shoulder starts to "roll forwards" when I'm at the bottom of my bench press stroke - probably has something to do with my past pec issues. It's tough to keep it back and keep my scapula tucked with the barbell grip. I could always do reverse grip...

* I think it'd probably be more appropriate to take this along with my normal morning/evening supplementation, but 500mg + the chromium in my multivitamin is on the border of what I'm comfortable taking, so I've made it a post-workout thing (and I only lift every second day)

** Not sure if this is properly a post-workout supplement or if I should be taking it daily, but it's quite expensive, so that's how I'm using it.

The chromium/alpha-lipoic acid/omega-3 dosing was inspired by this article by John Berardi.

The problem is that CTE doesn't show up until the autopsy, and it's untreatable at present anyway.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call progress:

... Until now, the only definitive way to diagnose Alzheimer’s has been to search for plaque with a brain autopsy after the patient dies. Scientists hope the new scanning technique, described June 24 in The New York Times’s series “The Vanishing Mind,” will allow doctors to see plaque while the patient is still alive, improving diagnosis and aiding research on drugs to slow or stop plaque accumulation.

Neurologists have known about plaques ever since Alzheimer’s disease was first described in 1906. They are microscopic bumps made up of a protein, amyloid beta, appearing on the surface of the brain in areas involved with learning and memory. They are so characteristic of Alzheimer’s that they are required for a definitive diagnosis of the disease.

Of course, doctors do not wait for a brain autopsy to diagnose Alzheimer’s. They use memory tests and evaluations of patients’ reasoning and ability to care for themselves. Yet with autopsy, even doctors at leading medical centers have been wrong as often as 20 percent of the time: people they said had Alzheimer’s did not have plaque.

The scans were developed by a Philadelphia company, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, and, independently, by Bayer and General Electric. They use a radioactive dye that attaches to plaque in the brain, allowing it to be seen with a PET scan....

Endogenous testosterone is produced in the human body via cholesterol metabolism.5 6 Detection of testosterone doping relies on the general observation that endogenous testosterone has a different 13C content compared to hemisynthetic testosterone used in pharmaceutical preparations. Such detection is possible because the carbon atoms in steroid molecules originate primarily in atmospheric CO2, which is fixed through photosynthesis. The most important photosynthetic pathways used by plants are the so-called C3 and C4 pathways.7 8 Significant isotope fractionation occurs during photosynthetic carbon fixation, depending on the mode of CO2 fixation. Thus, the key enzymes that fix CO2 in C3 plants discriminate more strongly against 13CO2 than their analogues in C4 plants. As a result, the two types of plants differ by about 14‰ in the isotopic composition of their tissues....

The metabolism of an exogenous anabolic steroid in humans will cause depletion in 13C of the steroid itself or of its metabolites in urine specimens, since the primary source of synthetic preparations are phytosterols extracted from 13C depleted plants (C3 plants), mainly soy and Mexican yam....

If you want fractional plates, but don't feel like paying $50 for a set, good news:

Buy six of these for less than $2 each (plus shipping), and you can increase the weights on an Olympic barbell in 1.25lb increments (assuming your gym has 2.5lb plates and up). They're decently accurate, too; all the ones I bought (two full sets) were within 11 grams.